Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-08-31
THE POOR BOYS CHANCE.

recent visit to Clinton, the Springfield
Republican says:
IAN American President rambling
among the scenes of his boyhood is always
significant of one tremendous fact in our
national life-and that is the essential
Democracy of our institutions and the
practical equality of all men in this coun-
try in their political capacity. DR.. Nc
Glynn and Henry George and Mr.. Pow
derly and all other agitators may talk
about the slavery of the American work.
ingman, and the vast difference between
the poor laborer and Jay Gould-but after
all, the fact is and cannot be denied, that
the poor mans son is more likely to rise
to the highest seat of power in the nation
than the son of any man of wealth. Nor
does this favor rise from any demagogic
hostility to the son favored by wealth."
They state the situation fairly. In no
country on the earth has the poor boy 80
much to hope for and to aspire to as he
has in the United States. Not only in
politics but in every profession and every
business the gate is wide omen, for him on
the road that leads to the highest h0nors.
The humble origin of nearly all the
Presidents of the United States is familiar
to all. It is remarkable fact that the
strongest characters among them were
those whose boyhood and youth were pass
ed in poverty and hardship.
The poor boy has been as pre-eminent
in business as in politics. A big majority
of the millionaires in the United States
to-day were born either in poverty or in
moderate circumstances. The foundations
of the greatest fortunes in this country
were laid by poor men of this or the past
49, hNo foI No1I fov
lilies" are poor. The learned professions
tell the same old story. Most of their
leaders are men who fought their way up
zenship, men who did not have the ad-
vantage of an honored family name, or
the aid of powerful family connections.
There are people in the United States
who boast of their ancestry, and we some
times hear of "the aristocracy." This sort
of talk is the source of comfort and pleas
ure to those who indulge in it, and, as 1t
does nobody any harm, there is no reason
for objecting to it. But the fact remains
and grows clearer every day, that the
common people rule this country. They
control its politics and direct its thought.
In their humble home, in their unpreten-
tious lives, in their hard Drawn and their
brave, simple hearts lie the hopes OF the
republic and the genius of its future great
ness. ......
We sometimes hear people say, "Give
poor boy chance" That is good senti-
ment, but it is the glory of our history
that in every generation there have been
found poor boys who made chances for
themselves, who became great and good
men and left names which their country
holds in honored memory.
BRINGING UP CHILDREN RATIONAL
LY.-It is as natural to child to be happy,
as it is for fish to swim. But for this
they need a certain amount of 'letting
alone" It is great mistake for parents
to hamper their children with foolish re-
strictions. We pity the little BIS, our
next door neighbours children, from the
bottom of our heart. There is picket
fence in front of the house, and they are
not allowed to 60 near it lest they should
climb and hurt themselves. They cannot
climb tree for the same reason. They
may not skate or swim, or have gun.
The consequence of this training is that
their parents have made towards of them
all, with the exception of little Bessie,
who is the most daring little mischief that
ever wore sunbonnet, and she has learn
ed to be decitful and plays all her mad
pranks well out of her parents eyes. We
caught her the other day walking the rail-
ing of bridge that crossed the track of
railroad hundred feet below. The rail-
ing was not foot wide, and she triumph
antly told US that she walked it while the
train was passing under. 1t was enough
to make one shudder.
Don't fancy your boy is made of glass.
Grant reasonable request, and let him
feel that when you refuse, it is for his
own good. Between the Jellybys and the
Gradgrinds of life, children have a hard
time of it. The youngest child needs
some sort of agreeable occupation, and a
certain amount of physical freedom. There
is nothing more painful to young people
than to feel that life is one dull routine,
and that nothing ever happens" as we
once heard q disconsolate lad remark.
The TORNADO SEAsON.-As we are ap-